THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES

Set in R.B. Lemberg's award-winning queer fantasy Birdverse world, THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES tells the mystical journey of a pair of elders searching for magic, art, identity and peace. After waiting 40 years to learn the final profound weave, aged Uiziya sets off across the Great Burri Desert to find her exiled aunt, Benesret, the master weaver who creates the cloth of bone for assassins. Accompanying her is Nen-sasair, a nameless man who is looking for Benesret too but for a different reason. Along the way they encounter compelling kindness and merciless violence and are often faced with the choice "to care or not, as all people do." THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES is a philosophical story on family and society and the importance of recognition and transformation.

The Birdverse is the creation of fantasy author R.B. Lemberg. It is a complex, culturally diverse world, with a range of LGBTQIA characters and different family configurations. Shorter works in the Birdverse have been nominated the Nebula, Hugo, Tiptree Award and Rhysling Awards. THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES is the first full-length work set in the Birdverse.

R. B. Lemberg is a queer, bigender immigrant from Eastern Europe and Israel. Their stories and poems have appeared in Lightspeed Magazine's Queers Destroy Science Fiction!, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Uncanny Magazine, Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology, among other publications. Check out their web site at: www.rblemberg.net